Prodware shows strong business performance in Q4 2020

PARIS: Despite a dire economic situation, the Prodware Group sees a significant surge in technological investments in the 4th quarter of 2020 on behalf of many customers, both mid-market companies and subsidiaries of large groups. With the growing demand for digitalization, especially with regard to support functions, brought on by the generalization of remote work,…

Total acquires 20% interest in Adani Green Energy Limited

PARIS: Total SE has announced the acquisition of a 20% minority interest in Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) from Adani Group. The transaction marks the deepening partnership between the Adani Group – India’s leading infrastructure platform – and Total, in the transition and green energy fields in India. The investment in AGEL is another step…

Bouygues Telecom announces its new strategic plan “Ambition 2026”

PARIS: After having made ambitious pledges to fight against climate change, Bouygues Telecom is now taking a new step by unveiling its strategic plan and targets for 2026. To achieve that ambition, Bouygues Telecom is stepping up its growth in a reinvigorated French market, leveraging the drivers responsible for its success since 2015, its recent…

Eurofins launches new tests for detecting and monitoring new variants of SARS-CoV-2

PARIS: The increasing diversity of SARS-CoV-2 variants and the potential higher infectivity of some new viral strains, underline the need to identify, trace and track mutations across the complete viral genome. Currently, strains of concern include the B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in the United Kingdom, and the B.1.351 variant, first identified in South Africa. Eurofins…

Total and Apache Corporation announce significant oil and gas discovery off the coast of Suriname

PARIS: Total and Apache Corporation have made a new significant oil and gas discovery at the Keskesi East-1 well, in Block 58 off the coast of Suriname. This follows previous discoveries at Maka Central, Sapakara West and Kwaskwasi. The well was drilled by a water depth of about 725 meters and encountered a total of…

Solvay launches hydrogen platform

BRUSSELS: Solvay SA has launched a hydrogen platform that will bring together all the innovative material and chemical solutions the Group has to offer to advance the emerging hydrogen economy. At the heart of the platform is Solvay’s membrane technology (ion conducting polymer), which constitutes a necessary component in the process of hydrogen production. By…

Capgemini announces leadership appointments

PARIS: Capgemini today confirmed a number of Group leadership appointments that combine its global strengths and talent, effective January 1, 2021. Three leaders named as CEOs of strategic business units: In Europe, Michael Schulte, previously Managing Director of Capgemini in Germany, is now CEO of the Northern Europe Strategic Business Unit. Jérôme Siméon, previously Managing…

Total and Engie partner to develop France’s largest site for the production of green hydrogen

PARIS: Total SE and Engie have signed a cooperation agreement to design, develop, build and operate the Masshylia project, France’s largest renewable hydrogen production site at Châteauneuf-les-Martigues in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur South region. Located at the heart of Total’s La Mède biorefinery and powered by solar farms with a total capacity of more than 100…

Prodways Group records major successes in the field of medical applications

PARIS: Prodways Group, specialist in digital design and manufacturing, announced major successes in the field of medical applications for its 3D Materials division. In the continuity of a very successful year 2020 and despite the Covid-19 crisis, Prodways Group’s materials division, DeltaMed, recorded outstanding successes in its dental products division by i/ signing an agreement…

Lleida.net receives its fourth patent from Chinese Intellectual Property Administration

MADRID: The Chinese Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has granted a new patent to Spanis digital signature company Lleida.net, for its method for producing electronic contracts certified by a user of telecommunications operator. This patent is the fourth that the listed company receives from the authorities of the People’s Republic of China and it is valid…